Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] [patch] drop privs in dumpcap if run setuid by non-root

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 14, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Hank Leininger wrote:

> Hm, I'm afraid I'm too much of a wireshark n00b to know what you  
> mean by
> 'capture live list'.

I think he means the list of interfaces on which you can capture.

> I didn't find anything by that name in the 0.99.5
> sources.  Anyway, are these cases where you know there is some design
> problem with migrating them to using dumpcap, or just cases where the
> migration work isn't done yet, but is somewhere on the roadmap?

There's no inherent problem with doing that in dumpcap; there needs to  
be a way to ask dumpcap to give a list of interfaces (written to the  
standard output) in a form that Wireshark can use to generate the drop- 
down list of interfaces.

Note that this format will probably change over time, as it also needs  
to supply interface properties, and the list of interface properties  
will probably grow over time.